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Look at that troll bait headline! To clarify a bit, everything you know about video games is actually right, but only when talking about a niche of game players. This niche is called hardcore gamers. What makes you wrong is when you try and apply all your insights about this niche, years of information gathered from thousands of hours playing games, to the much larger set of all game players in existence. A surprising amount of professionals are making this mistake RIGHT NOW. Not making this mistake actually puts you in a minority of people that are poised to be successful in the coming years of video gaming.

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As an indie developer I’m always keeping an eye out for independent game competitions to participate in. Alas, a new breed of competition has appeared. This new breed doesn’t pay you in money, or critical reception like a real competition would. Instead, it pays you in vanity.

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In their latest attempt to legitimize legally dubious actions, pirates have launched a website called The Pirate Google. They claim that the recent court verdict condemning The Pirate Bay, a popular search site for downloading copyrighted material without paying the copyright holders, should also be used to convict the owners of Google.
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